Alan Partridge creator Coogan is nominated for two awards - Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture - for his work on heartbreaking drama, Philomena.

“Can you imagine anything more debilitating than watching that and not getting anything? It’s like water torture,” he told the New York Times.

“I’m really happy, but I feel like it’s happening to someone else,” he added. “I always get jealous of Americans that they can whoop and cheer with good news. It’s not a very British thing to do.”

But after a beat he soon added: “That’s not true. I was doing a victory march around my bedroom in my dressing gown. Which I maybe shouldn’t share with you. My girlfriend thought it was appalling.”

Philomena picked up two further nominations with legendary British actress Dame Judi Dench securing her seventh nod from the Oscars. The Bond actress won once in 1998 for her role as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love.

Alexandre Desplat is also up for the Best Original Score gong for the film.